Introduction
Are you an experienced leader passionate about leveraging AI to drive change within an organization? Do you excel in collaborating with cross-functional teams to strategically embed AI capabilities across various business functions?
IBM's AI Center of Excellence (CoE), stands at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest advancements in Generative AI to drive internal transformation.
• Join us in the pursuit of not just solving business challenges across IBM Infrastructure, but reshaping the landscape for our employees through creative AI solutions. Immersing ourselves in the technology we deliver to our clients, we're not just adapting to change; we're driving it.
• Join us in redefining how AI enhances productivity, improves workflows, and delivers value across IBM Infrastructure.
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The AI Center of Excellence is seeking a skilled Development Manager to join our team. In this role, you will lead a team of engineers to develop and implement advanced AI solutions using IBM's Watsonx platform and pretrained models like Granite. You will build scalable and secure applications on IBM Cloud, collaborating with Technical Account Managers, Solution Architects, UX/UI Designers, Developers, and other stakeholders to deliver impactful, innovative solutions.
Your role and responsibilities
• Develop high performing technical talent with a particular focus on delivering value.
• Oversee the end-to-end development lifecycle of AI solutions, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery.
• Design and establish architectural frameworks for AI and cloud-based solutions.
• Review and approve technical designs and implementations, identifying and mitigating risk.
• Ensure high standards of code quality through regular code reviews, automated testing, and adherence to coding standards.
• Identify and implement improvements in development processes, tools, and methodologies to increase team efficiency and product quality.
• Evaluate and recommend new technologies and frameworks for implementation.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• 7+ years of software development, with at least 2 years in developing and deploying AI/ML solutions, particularly generative AI models
• 2+ years of leading a team of engineers
• Expertise in languages such as Python and Java or JavaScript relevant to AI development.
• Strong experience with AI/ML frameworks and APIs like PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain, OpenAI API and their use in developing generative AI applications
• Experience in deploying and fine-tuning models like Granite, Mistral, and Llama 3
• Experience with LLM prompt engineering, retrieval augmented generation
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems (e.g., Git), and containerization tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases relevant to AI applications
• Solid understanding of cloud security best practices, data encryption, and compliance standards
• Passionate about how AI can change software development and motivated to turn this into a reality
• Proven ability to lead and mentor technical teams, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail in all aspects of development and documentation
Preferred technical and professional experience
• Hands on experience with the Watsonx product portfolio
• Proficiency with IBM Cloud services, including compute, storage, networking, and AI-specific offerings
• Track record of implementing large-scale AI solutions
• Experience with performance optimization and scalability design
• Background in designing event-driven architectures
• Proficient in agile software development practices, with experience leading agile teams
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world's most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.
YOUR LIFE @ IBM
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?
ABOUT IBM
IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualifiedapplicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexualorientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability,neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is alsocommitted to compliance with all fair employment practices regardingcitizenship and immigration status.
OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS
Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.
This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.